Van Gogh 100

Contents

Preface

I. Reintroducing Vincent

Greeting: Sjraar van Heugten
Bogomila Welsh-Ovcharov, “’I Shall Grow in the Tempest’: Van Gogh 100 Years Later”
A. M, Hammacher, “The Sense of Sorrow”

II. Iconography

Yvonne Korshak, “From Passions to Passion: Visual and Verbal Puns in The Night Café”
Hope B. Werness, “The Symbolism of van Gogh’s Flowers”
Kitty McChesney Alhadeff, “Van Gogh’s ‘Worship of Sorrow’ and Charles Dickens’ Religion of Hearth and  Home”
Albert Boime, “Van Gogh, Thomas Nast and the Social Role of the Artist”

III. Literature

Patricia E. Connors, “Vincent as Reader: Reading in the Formation of the Artist”
Maude M. J. Jennings, “Van Gogh and Gerard Manley Hopkins: An Interdisciplinary Exploration”
Peter Cooley, “Two Poems from The Van Gogh Notebook (1987)”  
Robert H. Waugh, “Two Poems from Gallery Excavations”

IV. Psychology

Enrico Maria Davoli, “Experience and Knowledge in van Gogh’s Imaginative Transactions”
James Risser, “Self-Portrait as Self-Image”
Orlindo Gouveia Pereira, “The Role of Copying in van Gogh’s Oeuvre and Illness”
Aaron Sheon, “Van Gogh’s Understanding of Theories of Neurosis, Neurasthenia and Degeneration in the 1880s” 

V. Religion

The Reverend J. Frits Wagener, “Vincent of Zundert: Pastoral Background”
Judy Sund, “Van Gogh’s Berceuse and the Sanctity of the Secular”
Tsukasa Ködera, “Christianity versus Nature: A Study of van Gogh’s Thematics”
Clifford Walter Edwards, “Van Gogh’s Spiritual Quest: Toward a Theology of Vulnerability”

VI. Interpretation 

Johann Pillai, “Van Gogh and his Readers: The Case of Antonin Artaud”
Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, “Van Gogh, Schapiro, Heidegger and Derrida:
David Joel Shapiro, “Van Gogh, Heidegger, Schapiro, Derrida: The Truth in Criticism (Notes on Restless Life)”
Joseph Masheck, “In the Artist’s Boots”

VII. The Legacy in Art

Mark Wentworth Roskill, “Van Gogh at Auvers: The Majesty of Nature”
Margaret B. Betz, “Van Gogh’s Faktura and Modern Russian Art”
Erik Saxon, “’Overall Space’: Comparing van Gogh, Mondrian and  Pollock”
Dore Ashton, “The Inspiring Presence of the Work and Personality of van Gogh among Painters of the Twentieth Century”

Westport, Connecticut and London: Greenwood Press, 1996

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